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Curves
05/21/09

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I would like to visit Russia some day, for no other reason than the architecture.
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GitEmSteveDave_My Brute Dojo CDIAFIFE
05/21/09

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Wait a minute. There. In the distance during the 9:30 Red Square Main Street ICBM Parade. Is that a GLG-20? But a very familiar GLG-20.

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Hello Mister Walrus
05/21/09

@OnThe$20Coin_GitEmSteveDave: So Snowmodo was just cover for some kind of espionage mission? I should have suspected as much. There's no way they keep all these gadgets around just to "write reviews" about them.
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OMG! Ponies!
05/21/09

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The last picture looks like how every reunion in my family ends. Crazy Grandpa in a sailor outfit yelling at us after drinking way too much vodka.

Yes Grandpa. I know you sold apples on the street. Yes Grandpa. I know that you worked two jobs while going to school and taking care of your family. Yes Grandpa. I know that I need to stop dating shikses. Yes Grandpa. I'll settle down and get married like Michael. No Grandpa. I'm not giving up my job to become a rabbi.

9:00 a.m. and I already need a drink. *sigh
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GitEmSteveDave_My Brute Dojo CDIAFIFE
05/21/09

@OMG! Ponies!: No, "Yes Grandpa, one ping, one ping only."?
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Mr.HandsomePrettyFace
05/21/09

@OMG! Ponies!: not being ignorant but are there women rabbis?
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OMG! Ponies!
05/21/09

@Mr.HandsomePrettyFace: Depends on the Judaism.

There's Reform, Conservative, and Orthodox and all sorts of gray areas in between. A lot of non-practicing tend to fall around Reform and Conservative.

I'm fairly non-practicing. I always fast on Yom Kippur and abstain from chometz during Passover. I eat bacon (not on holidays) but when I go to Temple on the holidays and the rare Saturday, I go to a Conservative synagogue and do all the prayers in Hebrew. But the rabbi then gives the sermon on that week's parashah in English. It's a happy middle ground for me.

And I've sworn off shikses. Too many failed relationships with Irish lapsed-Catholics. I need a good Jewess to bring home to Nana.
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aerospaceman
05/21/09

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thirty year old (or older) tech from the war that never was...
I bet those trucks are so old they have slaves inside pedaling.
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gaggia
05/21/09

@aerospaceman: Actually, a big part of Russia's nuclear tech is more modern than that of the United States. The scary part is that their nuclear development projects are still ongoing, unlike in the United States.
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Jesus Diaz
05/21/09

@gaggia: Their conventional weaponry is really good too. Their development in anti-missile-defense technology is getting really good, and the fighters are still fucking amazing, so are their bombers. Their Navy is also in the uprise. Talking down the Russian military as "30-yo technology" is just dumb.
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GitEmSteveDave_My Brute Dojo CDIAFIFE
05/21/09

@aerospaceman: Yeah, I mean just b/c their ejection seat technology is leaps and bounds beyond ours, to the point where they can eject supersonically(IIRC, it involves booms and wind shielding), while we are pissing on sparkplugs, to see if it will do any good.
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Monty
05/21/09

@OnThe$20Coin_GitEmSteveDave: Our military has been moving toward technology that keeps us from putting pilots in the air entirely, so we are comfortable with 30 year old ejection seat technology - well, those of us that are not actually in an American plane flying, that is.

No question, given how much trouble our military has fighting individuals using cell phones as detonators and finding people responsible for killing thousands of our citizens hiding in a mountain, I avoid saying anything degrading about anyone else's technology. As we learned yesterday, a simple AA battery to the heart can kill someone, so it does not take amazing technology to cause a world of hurt.
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Hello Mister Walrus
05/21/09

@OnThe$20Coin_GitEmSteveDave: Though in all fairness, most of Russia's military equipment probably is around 30 years old. For comparison, the US has some F-22s, but a majority of its military planes are older models. Just because they have the technology to make better weapons doesn't mean they have the resources to upgrade their whole military. Even if they did, it might not make sense economically.
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EqualOpportunityCrasher
05/21/09

@aerospaceman: I'd rather have some of their old, resilient tech than some of the US' stuff. Have you seen the runways their planes take off of? They can suck pebbles, rocks, a flock of birds into their engines and have no problems. You so much as suck a stray hair into an American jet engine and you're screwed.

That said, I would rather be shooting the firearms Americans use over an AK or RPK any day.
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wiedzmin
05/21/09

@EqualOpportunityCrasher: I would take an AK over M4A1 any time - doesn't overheat, doesn't jam, even if submerged in water or covered in sand... I'd like to see M4A1 do that.
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Hello Mister Walrus
05/21/09

@wiedzmin: That's actually a fairly explored topic. The M4A1 is more accurate and more powerful, but it is expensive, and requires meticulous maintenance and cleaning to function reliably. This is why the M4A1 is the preferred rifle of well-funded militaries like the US, while the AK47 is so common in less affluent countries.
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Eauboy
05/21/09

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That first photo...

Is it hot in here, or is it just me?
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OMG! Ponies!
05/21/09

@Eauboy: Sometime, an ICBM is just an ICBM.
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